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Thursday, 30 November 2017

Chinese customs make biggest ever pangolin scales seizure

Shenzhen Customs announced on Wednesday that it cracked a case of
11.9 tons of pangolin scales smuggled from Africa, the largest volume in
any single case found by the country’s customs.

The scales are estimated to come from at least 20,000 pangolins, a
species listed in Appendix I at the 17th Congress of the Convention on
International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna last
year, which bans all international trade of pangolins and their
products.

Two suspects in the case, surnamed Li, from East China’s Shandong
province and He, from East China’s Anhui province, have been issued
arrest warrants, said Chen Qunfang, deputy chief of Dapeng Customs
affiliated with Shenzhen Customs.